Broncos Player Movement and Rumours 2020

[ivanhungryjak]

Melbourne have joined to the race the sign TPJ

Melbourne are attempting to offload giant prop Sam Kasiano in a bid to sign the hottest property on the open market - Broncos colossus Tevita Pangai Junior.
Big things were tipped for the giant Kasiano when he joined the Storm this year from the Bulldogs but he failed to live up to the hype.
Kasiano did manage 14 games in the top grade but averaged only 23 minutes per match and failed to make the type of impact Craig Bellamy has been looking for.
Pangai Junior, on the other hand, is young, keen, fit and a machine. That’s why the Broncos are desperate to retain him and half a dozen rival clubs are also on his tail.
Word has it he is most likely to stay in Brisbane - but that won’t stop the chasers from making big bids to lure him away from the Broncos and the fact he has yet to commit is a good sign for rival clubs.
Bellamy has a reputation for turning good forwards into great ones and that is something Pangai Junior will take into consideration.

The Mole

 

[mitch222]

I like Parcell, but it's a massive exaggeration to say he was amazing for manly.

You don't end up in super league if you are talented enough to be starting in first grade in the NRL. Clubs will pay quality money for a quality hooker

 

[Morkel]

The Mole

"...the fact he has yet to commit is a good sign for rival clubs. "

The fact he is yet to sign is purely down to him changing management as of November 1st, right? Again, more bullshit by the usual suspects, either out of ignorance, or hoping their audience is dumb enough to believe it.

 

[Old Mate]

You don't end up in super league if you are talented enough to be starting in first grade in the NRL. Clubs will pay quality money for a quality hooker

You do if you decide you want to travel, live in another country and play footy. Which is what he did, he wanted to go over there.

 

[Foordy]

The fact he is yet to sign is purely down to him changing management as of November 1st, right? Again, more bullshit by the usual suspects, either out of ignorance, or hoping their audience is dumb enough to believe it.

there is a reason he still writes ... and that is that his audience is dumb enough to believe him

 

[Alec]

The Mole

Release Kasiano, sign TPJ. That's some Roosters level management.

 

[Battler]

Lol @ the Mole having a little shot at us for not being able to turn good players into great players whilst Bellamy can. First of all, Bellamy's ability to do so is a myth, it's Smith making the rest of the team look a few rungs higher than they actually are that does the trick. Secondly, is TPJ not already a great player? He apparently has clubs offering him 800k+.

 

[Gaz]

Lol @ the Mole having a little shot at us for not being able to turn good players into great players whilst Bellamy can. First of all, Bellamy's ability to do so is a myth, it's Smith making the rest of the team look a few rungs higher than they actually are that does the trick. Secondly, is TPJ not already a great player? He apparently has clubs offering him 800k+.

Just looked at Milford’s 2016 highlight video - he might have a point.

 

[I bleed Maroon]

I don't believe it for a second but if TPJ signs with Melbourne I'm done with the sport. Not kidding.

 

[Morkel]

I don't believe it for a second but if TPJ signs with Melbourne I'm done with the sport. Not kidding.

Melbourne were holding out cap space for Slater on the off-chance he'd want to play on. While I doubt they'd have kept $1 million free, there'd be a good chunk. Similarly, while they had to spend a lot of money to retain a bunch of their players recently, Cronk's money would have helped towards that.

TLDR, losing Cronk and Slater in successive seasons would give them some cap room to sign a big name. It's not unfeasible to think they could afford TPJ.

 

[ivanhungryjak]

Lol @ the Mole having a little shot at us for not being able to turn good players into great players whilst Bellamy can.

Rather ironic when he’s just finished saying that Bellamy failed with Kasiano...

 

[upthebroncs]

Will these guys make our 30 man squad?

 

[Wolfie]

Will these guys make our 30 man squad?

Doubt it, don't think we have signed them. They are just players at a Broncos affiliate.

 

[Cult]

Wynnum Manly also signed Matiu Love-Henry, Junior Pauga and Patrick Sipley from the Warriors but I doubt any of them are in with a shot to play first grade.

 

[Lockysillegitimatechild]

Melbourne were holding out cap space for Slater on the off-chance he'd want to play on. While I doubt they'd have kept $1 million free, there'd be a good chunk. Similarly, while they had to spend a lot of money to retain a bunch of their players recently, Cronk's money would have helped towards that.

TLDR, losing Cronk and Slater in successive seasons would give them some cap room to sign a big name. It's not unfeasible to think they could afford TPJ.

The ridiculous part isnt that they have money to sign another player, its that they had a spare $1 million sitting in the cap “just in case” slater stayed on. But worst of all for me is that this is ANOTHER advantage the storm have gotten from the systematic salary cap cheating for millions upon millions year after year for half a decade. They were able to build continued success and keep the nucleus of a team together they would have had no chance of doing whilst other clubs lost great players, now a decade on and multiple premierships later they lose those players and the cap space they took up is used to buy the best on the market and upgrade players, all the while being able to sway players using the “successful club” tag that they built systematically cheating....

It will take 20 years for the storm to finally stop benefitting from the years of cheating thanks to the soft penalty given by the nrl. Why did they get to choose which players they released? Why did they not get 5 years less salary cap space to the same amount they rorted it? Its no suprise other teams cheated after them, it was the weakest pea hearted deterint for it

 

[Morkel]

The ridiculous part isnt that they have money to sign another player, its that they had a spare $1 million sitting in the cap “just in case” slater stayed on. But worst of all for me is that this is ANOTHER advantage the storm have gotten from the systematic salary cap cheating for millions upon millions year after year for half a decade. They were able to build continued success and keep the nucleus of a team together they would have had no chance of doing whilst other clubs lost great players, now a decade on and multiple premierships later they lose those players and the cap space they took up is used to buy the best on the market and upgrade players, all the while being able to sway players using the “successful club” tag that they built systematically cheating....

It will take 20 years for the storm to finally stop benefitting from the years of cheating thanks to the soft penalty given by the nrl. Why did they get to choose which players they released? Why did they not get 5 years less salary cap space to the same amount they rorted it? Its no suprise other teams cheated after them, it was the weakest pea hearted deterint for it

I agree that they've lost very little and gained a huge advantage by cheating.

But I doubt they would have kept $1 million free for Slater. Had he played on, he would have had to accept that the club needs to recruit and retain for the future, and play for less money (something that Smith doesn't seem capable of comprehending).

I'm also confident that it won't take 20 years for the gloss to rub off. I reckon 2-3 years after Smith retires, we'll see exactly what the Storm and Bellamy are made of. Bellamy will not accept failure, and their slide down the ladder will have him tearing strips off the playing group and it'll self destruct quicker and more spectacularly than Maguire's Rabbitohs.

 

[upthebroncs]

Big news if true

 

[1910]

I like Parcell, but it's a massive exaggeration to say he was amazing for manly.

He was strong when given a proper go under tough conditions. Barrett didn't like him running- why you'd sign a running hooker with great running instincts and then hand cuff like that who knows. Parcell is too smart for just stand and pass- train a back rower to do that.

So left.